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The Finnish Maritime and Process Industry had their first joint DBE Core workshop on Friday, August 25th. The subject of the workshop was digitalization of technical information exchange. Continue reading →

Industry digitalization requires commonly agreed standards, automated intercompany business processes and business rules to manage these multilateral processes. Modern API technology flavored with blockchain and smart contracts helps solving the integration and trust challenges. These are the basic elements of the Maritime and Process Industry Supply Chain development projects that are leading industry digitalization. DBE Core (Digital Business Ecosystem) visions are coming true! Continue reading →

Digitalization is emerging in every branch of life. It is also expected to bring up unforeseen business efficiency for process industry plant lifecycle businesses – from capital investment projects to operations and maintenance of industrial plants. As every company has its own viewpoints and opportunities to digitalization, it has been challenging to find out what it actually takes from an individual company. The inspiring discussions at the recent (20. Sep. 2016) Finnish forest industry workshop proved this once again. Continue reading →

Purchase Order and Order Confirmation are commercial business documents that define a trade transaction. In complex multilateral process industry lifecycle business the related engineering and plant asset information is at least as important and valuable as goods (hardware), the subject … Continue reading →

Businesses are constantly improving their internal business processes and competence. Digitalization through IoT, cloud services, e-commerce and many other new things bring up various incoherent demands to their IT systems. In this environment the challenge is to organize business processes with the external partners in a proper yet transparent way. External business processes mean intercompany information exchange that often may be multilateral. Several companies may work together each bringing its best competence to achieve a common goal. Continue reading →

Plant asset information plays key role in operations and maintenance (O&M) and procurement processes that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), material management and maintenance management (MRO – Maintain, Repair and Overhaul) systems run. The systems became part of ordinary business life more than 20 years ago. However, the external intercompany business processes in equipment and service procurement have mainly remained untouched since then. Why? Continue reading →

Majority of the plant asset information originates many different organizations and mainly outside companies such as equipment vendors, suppliers, engineering companies and service providers. What is that information, who actually owns it, who can use it and who is responsible of maintaining it? They all are important questions as that information is the core of your business. Continue reading →

The new way to organize information management in Operations & Maintenance offers remarkable business benefits for process industry companies and their suppliers and service providers. Continue reading →

Several studies indicate that better collaboration in operation and maintenance can bring multi-billion euro cost savings opportunity world-wide for process industry companies and for companies serving them. The industry has not yet succeeded to claim those savings, but several companies already have built or are developing their enhanced collaboration strategies. Collaxion is in the core of this development. Continue reading →

According to Wikipedia Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together in an intersection of common goals — by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. Continue reading →